Sharing understanding to build meaning, literacy circles play on the 4 resources model of Luke and Freebody, assigning readers a role in a co-operative interaction with the text in a group, working with readers with specific responsibilities.
Literacy circles can assist in developing literacy skills and strategies for reading for meaning, with a shared responsibility for creating that meaning, therefore giving students support and a safe learning environment. This is especially valuable where multicultural mixed ability classes come face-to-face with students whose reading ability has not kept up with their progression through the school. Making meaningful discussions, sharing responses and working co-operatively make the experience meaningful. this may be especially worthwhile when working with confronting texts such as Let the Celebrations Begin, or Home and Away.
Artful Artist - depicts an element in the reading and offers a statement justifying why it is important eg character, moment, setting
Word Wizard - selects 4 words that might be interesting or challenging and provides a definition of each, an activity and a justification as to why the words are important
Creative Connector - linking the reading to life experiences, world knowledge or other texts
Passage Picker
Repertoire of practices
decode - meaning making potential of the signs and symbols in the text
participate - personal significance to attach meaning to the graphophonic codes
use - socially appropriate responses to the text
Teachers can put together other roles to challenge higher order thinking, which meets the text analyst role from Luke and Freebody, such as
Paradigm Profiler
Investigator / Interviewer
Reading is a social activity, reinforced by the literature circle
have to have critical as well as personal responses
Literature Circles
Sharing understanding to build meaning, literacy circles play on the 4 resources model of Luke and Freebody, assigning readers a role in a co-operative interaction with the text in a group, working with readers with specific responsibilities.
Literacy circles can assist in developing literacy skills and strategies for reading for meaning, with a shared responsibility for creating that meaning, therefore giving students support and a safe learning environment. This is especially valuable where multicultural mixed ability classes come face-to-face with students whose reading ability has not kept up with their progression through the school. Making meaningful discussions, sharing responses and working co-operatively make the experience meaningful. this may be especially worthwhile when working with confronting texts such as Let the Celebrations Begin, or Home and Away.
Teachers can put together other roles to challenge higher order thinking, which meets the text analyst role from Luke and Freebody, such as
Reading is a social activity, reinforced by the literature circle